Sentences with phrase «very upstanding»

All three still alive, married just once, no divorces, have children themselves who SEEM to me to be very upstanding — raised a bit of hell of course, but no one of them had early babies or got on drugs or anything serious like that.

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Mr. Upstanding Citizen in his private life may be something very different from his public persona.
«And it would have been on that basis that George Thomson — who was a very honest and upstanding and wise man — would have made his judgement that if he was going to be permanently resident in the UK and a full UK taxpayer, then it was not possible for the appointments committee to continue to block the peerage.»
Unfortunately, it is also features very dumb criminals, who are easily and repeatedly outwitted by ordinarily upstanding nobodies, including a 100 - pound schoolteacher.
Loudmouth Deanzie stands as a very real threat to upstanding behavior, though, and anyone caught in his whirlwind stands to lose.
That's the character's through line — a sudden realization that being an upstanding member of society hasn't gotten him very far and his constant, conflicted attempts to readjust how he behaves after coming to this realization.
First of all, let me say that I am sure that Laura is a very nice, upstanding person.
The marble upstands in this design from 1909 hark back to traditional deli counters, while also offering a very practical workstation.
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